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Medal Portraits exhibition in Spain

July 9, 2015 – Rafael Masó was one of the most important Catalan architects of the fin de siècle. The house in Girona where he was born and has lived for many years has become a museum. Until 12 September 2015 the Casa Masó shows medals from the Masó collections.

Casa Masó ‘Medal Portraits: The Spectacle of Bronze’ displays six sections containing nearly four hundred pieces, made during the period of Masó’s life by over one hundred and sixty medallists from some twenty different countries.

The Casa Masó collection is a constant source of surprises and wonders that under the management of the Rafael Masó Foundation is becoming material for study and knowledge on the heritage and history of the city of Girona.

The inauguration, in 2013, of the new temporary exhibition room on the ground floor of Casa Masó coincided with approval of the Temporary Exhibition Plan for the following five years, which is the roadmap that sets out the Foundation’s work in research and dissemination.

Just a few months later part of the collection was given a global reach when it became the third in Catalonia to be included in the Google Cultural Institute and presented within the Google Art Project.

We should not forget, however, the importance of being able to see the real objects at Casa Masó itself, as is the case of the magnificent and unique numismatic collection featured in this book and exhibition.

The cataloguing and study of two medals belonging to Casa Masó brought the museum in contact with Rossend Casanova, art historian, collector and specialist in modern numismatics, who not only helped to establish the value and interest of the pieces, but also suggested that they should be exhibited within the context of the life of Rafael Masó, from 1880 to 1935. Rossend Casanova curated the medal exhibition and was its main lender.

Free entranceTuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pmFrom 21 March to 12 September, 2015